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Endee, Kentucky

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1977. It stands in the Sturgeon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 41314. The Survey maps it on the Sturgeon quadrangle. It stands 1,030 feet above sea level.

Endee within Owsley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

315 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Endee between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5,936 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning164
Missing data/not specified/undetermined74
Arson/incendiarism59
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2001Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
28 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryJACK GAP
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryQUILLEN ROAD
24 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
22 September 2008Debris and open burning5.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
19 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
18 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owsley County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Endee in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEndee-Numerous trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Owsley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brewer Neighborhood (historical)1.8 miles14
Sturgeon1.8 miles14
Travellers Rest2.2 miles14
Elk Lick Neighborhood (historical)2.4 miles14
Scoville2.5 miles14
Vincent2.9 miles14
Needmore Neighborhood (historical)2.9 miles14
Blake3.1 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on EndeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5376005The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 512070. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.